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JohnRoberts · Joined: 29 Nov 2006 Posts: 145 Location: Greece

If someone else posted the file before, I deeply apologize, but since I did not find a pet for this and I compiled from source, I thought of sharing this with anyone else interested in multilingual keyboard layouts.
This is version 0.4. I tested in Puppy 2.17 and Dingo and it works. The only thing I did not do (it needs to be done by hand) was to
automate .xinitrc editing if you want to autostart at bootup. If anyone
would like to contribute a script to add "fbxkb &" just before JWM start
please do so.

Edit: Works on 2.17 (minor error message), PupEee (Puppy 3) & DingoPlus (Puppy 4). Does not work on 2.14R

Artie · Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 424 Location: Norway

Thank you very much I've been looking for this for a long time! I'm running frugal MediaPup right now which is basically 4.1.2. Could you please post exactly what I must write where to have it start at bootup?

Artie

amigo · Joined: 02 Apr 2007 Posts: 1758

There is also a program called fookb which doesn't need GTK. It can run as a DockApp also.

JohnRoberts · Joined: 29 Nov 2006 Posts: 145 Location: Greece

magerlab · Joined: 08 Jul 2007 Posts: 730

i use fbxkb for a long time
it can be swallowed by jwm tray like blinky
or you can just put a symlink into /root/Startup and it will start automatically

JohnRoberts · Joined: 29 Nov 2006 Posts: 145 Location: Greece

Do you have any clue why it does not work on 2.14R? It is included
by default in 2.14R but trying to start it all one gets is an error message...

Karl Godt · Joined: 20 Jun 2010 Posts: 2675 Location: Kiel,Germany

I want shortly say thank you !

Running well on Puppy511 !

jwm

Very Happy

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Later lucid 0.6 ones gave me
bash-3.00# ./fbxkb
xkb group #0 is already defined
kbd group numbering is not continous
run 'xlsatoms | grep pc' to know what hapends

So there is trouble inside the newer code Rolling Eyes

darkcity · Joined: 23 May 2010 Posts: 2215 Location: near here

+1 for this being standard in Puppy

its all I need without going into SCIM
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/HowToChangeAddKeyboardLayout

Anyone successfully added SCIM to Slacko?

BTW I assume the PET in this thread doesn't include a symlink to the startup folder?

darkcity · Joined: 23 May 2010 Posts: 2215 Location: near here

pressing Ctrl and Space brings up SCIM bar (when cursor is activate), so SCIM working, but the keyboard icon doesn't show on the panel when I open a program, geany for example?